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...Cleveland department stores last week offered the "Ballyhoo" scarf (with "Ballyhoo" clip), made with a crazy quilt design like the magazine's cover border. Also there are a Ballyhoo dress, necktie, cuff links, rings, night club (in Manhattan), song, game, birthday card, convalescent card, saloon (in Havana, formerly the American Bar), a statuet of Gandhi with a copy of Ballyhoo under his arm. Except for the game, all the other enterprises are independent of the publication which takes its royalties in the form of free advertising...
...storm which lashed the banking structure of New England blew itself out in Hartford fortnight ago when three institutions suspended, including the $20,000,000, 80-year-old City Bank & Trust Co. Other failures of the fortnight included Bank of Westerville, Ohio (with Anti-Saloon League funds); First National Bank of Gary, Ind. (leaving but one bank there, secure with U. S. Steel Corp. backing). In South Carolina there was a wave of failures following the crash of Peoples State Bank with $24,443,000 in deposits, 43 branches. Banks in such communities as Bishopville, Travelers Rest, Florence, failed...
...appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...
Author Ade pokes heavy fun at those who sentimentalize over "the poor man's club," says the brewers brought Prohibition on themselves by the abuses consequent on their forcing the sale of beer. Of the saloon's denizens only the barkeep emerges unscathed from Author Ade's hands. "He was at least as human and humane as his contemporaries and much more temperate in his habits. Let his epitaph be kindly...
Primarily "just history," The Old-Time Saloon is written with serious humor, earmarked here & there as Ade-made. With a crocodile tear in his eye, Author Ade describes an oldtime Kentucky belle: "You could span her waist with your two hands but she couldn't sit down in a tub." He recounts the feat of Tom Heath, who was ejected from an Irish saloon on St. Patrick's Day "because he ate the shamrocks on the bar, thinking they were watercress...